Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“But the poor and indigent who earn scarcely enough to keep themselves alive and who also have to pay tribute to the petty officials, clerks, and soldiers, that they may be allowed to live in peace, sleep not so tranquilly… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“What was exchanged in the language of their eyes, more perfect than their lips, the language afforded the soul so that no sound disturbs… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“He would have admired one of those fantastic visions, those magic apparitions one sometimes sees in the great theaters of Europe, in which the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to desire it.… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
